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Post #928477

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Mavimao
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Estimating the original colors of the original Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
13-Apr-2016, 2:55 AM

g-force said:

two things doc…

  1. This is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Not joking, millions could benefit from this technology.

  2. I think you would end up removing any intentional color timing from the film. Think about it. Take a photo, adjust the colors without clipping any of them too badly. Take the original photo and do it again. Do it in whatever color space you want. Now hit the button on each of the differently timed photos. They all get back to being pretty neutral, right? I’m not complaining, as this is an amazing tool in color recovery, but I don’t think you can say these were the colors on opening day.

-G

Perhaps if you were color correcting the original negative, but a print that’s already been corrected… The intended colors would still be there if I understand this algorithm correctly.